I am in the process of migrating a few sites from D7 to Backdrop. I am new to Backdrop, and really I know only a little about D7. We used D7 primarily as a wrapper for CiviCRM, and I only learned enough to get done what needed to get done, and our existing D7 themes are a hodgepodge. I want to have a better understanding of Backdrop.
I want all of our new themes to be based on the same structure, and I want bootstrap based sites, so using the Bootstrap5 Lite theme seems obvious. I really like that it offers a variety of options from Bootswatch. I'm starting with cerulean.
Question 1: can I make a subtheme of a Bootswatch layouts? Or will my customizations be a subtheme of Bootstrap5 Lite?
I really like that the previews of the Bootswatch options show a sampling of tags and classes. For example the first theme I am converting uses rounded tabs as a menu, and I can clearly see that Cerulean offers nice rounded nav tabs like my existing theme has.
Question 2: How do I get my existing menu to use these tab styles? They show up simply as an ordered list, without styles. From the Cerulean preview I can see that they use the nav-tabs class, but I can't see any way in Backdrop to apply this class to the menu in question. What am I missing?
That's all for now but I'm sure there'll be more questions as I go on.
Comments
Q 1: you might be able to make a sub theme and have the Bootswatch options available for it. I'm not certain of that.
Q 2: I think bootstrap lite might need the top menu to be selected in the header block options rather than be added as a separate menu block. If I recall correctly. I don't know what you've got.
If it's just a wrapper for CiviCRM the default Basis theme might be enough too? On the admin side I make sure that CiviCRM uses the default Seven admin theme for our sites with CiviCRM.